Delia
Ivanoff
Long-term Success of a Large Constructed Treatment Wetland
in the Everglades Agricultural Area Basin and its Benefits
to the Downstream Natural Marsh

PLENARY SESSION: Restoration Coffee House One
Harmful Algal Blooms: Prevention, Prediction, Management,
and Control
Harmful algal blooms are impacting human and ecological
health across the globe in both freshwater and marine
systems. In some cases, they can be prevented or
controlled, but in others they can only be predicted and
managed.
The panel will discuss various approaches for dealing with
this increasingly intractable problem.

PLENARY SESSION
Binational Action to Restore the Great Lakes○ Presentation

Cameron Davis,
Senior Advisor to the Administrator (Great Lakes), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes National
Program Office
John Lawrence, Senior Science Advisor to the Regional
Director-General for Ontario, Environment Canada

John
Hankinson,
Former Executive Director, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration
Task ForceKameran Onley, Former Acting Assistant Secretary for
Water and Science, Dept. of InteriorSteve Thompson, Former Manager of the
California-Nevada Operations Office, USFWSRob Vining, Former Chief, Programs Management
Division, USACEThis panel will compare and contrast experiences of the
Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Louisiana Coastal Area,
and Florida Everglades ecosystem restoration programs, and
will explore the crafting and sustaining of a federal policy
and funding frameworks to sustain each. Panelists will
discuss what it will take to advance a national resource
management and ecosystem restoration agenda - including
policy and funding requirements for creating a
collaborative, instead of competitive, framework at a
national level.

Panel discussion of members of the Platte River Recovery
Implementation Program's Independent Scientific Advisory
Committee (ISAC) on the role of independent science in
large-scale recovery programs and the relationships between
adaptive management, independent science, and
decision-making.

Invasive species cost $120 billion annually and cause
enormous impacts to native species and ecosystems. The
introduction of a relatively small number of non-native
organisms can quickly over-run native species as the
newcomers reproduce and feed with little or no competition.
Once they become established, non-native species are usually
impossible to eradicate and often difficult to control,
creating permanent changes to ecosystems. Prevention is the
primary method to protect native ecosystems from invasive
organisms. The panel will describe the history, extent and
possible impact on the Great Lakes of the Asian carps; the
measures currently being employed to address them; and
potential future actions, including re-establishing a
subcontinental divide between the Mississippi River system
and the Great Lakes.

This panel will discuss governance challenges to reducing
phosphorus sources into the Great Lakes, including recent
updates to the binational Great Lakes Water Quality
Agreement. Presentations will include a review of past
efforts to reduce phosphorus input and new challenges
presented by ecosystem changes.

Joe
Berg
Matt Harwell
Richard Hobbs

This interactive panel discussion will define the concept of
“novel ecosystems”, discuss application of the concept in
several case studies and provide an overview of the work
USDA NRCS has accomplished on Ecological Site Descriptions (ESD)
as a decision support tool for better land restoration and
management decisions.